Rumors over the fate of cloud gaming service OnLive swirled on Friday afternoon after reports the company had fired most of its staff. OnLive is being coy about its business situation, but on Friday afternoon several employees were seen leaving the Palo Alto-based company carrying packing boxes.

Rumors over the fate of cloud gaming service OnLive swirled on Friday afternoon after reports the company had fired most of its staff. OnLive is being coy about its business situation, but on Friday afternoon several employees were seen leaving the Palo Alto-based company carrying packing boxes.

With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving.

Both Google and Oracle said Friday they did not pay any journalists or bloggers for coverage or commentary of their high-profile copyright infringement battle that recently concluded in a California court, but the companies disagreed on what arrangements should be disclosed.

The digital breadcrumbs left behind when people use Internet-connected gadgets are what led California investigators to recover iMacs, iPads and other items stolen from the home of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Two open source libraries, libxml2 and libxslt are insecurely used by the open source database and can let users read or write arbitrary files on a system. Patched versions of PostgreSQL are available, but there is some breaking of backwards compatibility

"Bustin'," Ray Parker, Jr. once observed, "makes me feel good." Mr. Parker made that declaration in song for the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. Had he instead been tasked with recording a tune for the 2012 iOS game Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast, he'd be less likely to feel enthusiastically toward busting, be it ghosts or otherwise.

Oracle has agreed to pay a $2 million penalty to settle charges that it did not have proper controls to prevent employees at its Indian subsidiary from secretly setting aside funds from the company's books.

Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization
in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently
wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the
machine unusable.

The U.S. Cyber Command, which directs network offensive operations for
the Pentagon and protects its networks, is becoming more open about the
military’s capabilities in cyberspace. Recently, the Defense Department
was forced to show part of its hand when leaks surfaced about
U.S.-manufactured cyber weapons and cyber espionage...

Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government
encryption standard that, when finalized, is going to compel federal
agencies with older websites to replace them.

NIST's current standard calls for federal agencies to support Transport...

AUGUST 16 -- In a shocking security breach, a federal court clerk in Los
Angeles has been charged with selling information from sealed court
documents detailing upcoming arrests and law enforcement raids targeting
affiliates of an organized crime syndicate.

Investigators discovered the alleged scheme earlier this year after a
leader...

The U.S Department of State has withdrawn plans to place a $16.5 million order on Amazon.com for its Kindle Touch devices along with content management, and logistics, stating that it intends to conduct additional market research and re-examine its requirements for the program.

Lenovo said on Thursday the company was not worried about Microsoft's new Surface tablet, with its CEO stating the PC maker is confident it provides better hardware than its competitors including Microsoft.

Microsoft has resumed publishing applications on Marketplace, after sorting out a problem related to the certificates used to sign apps in the store, according to a post on Thursday on its Windows Phone developers' blog.

Taiwanese PC maker Acer, revising its estimates, does not expect "explosive growth" for Windows 8 devices when the Microsoft operating system launches in October, with its company CEO citing a lack of consumer interest as one of the reasons.